I got up around 8.00 today, which is late but not unforgivably so for an idle town dweller with nothing much to do. It gave me plenty of time to wrestle with plumbing, socks and trousers and do a spot of gardening before breakfast.
It was sort of gardening anyway, going over the joints of the paving stones with a flame gun. It’s far better than weedkiller and easier than hand weeding. The hedge looks like it needs a tidy, which reminded me I was planning some drastic pruning. If I get it cut back in the next two days I can get all the waste in the garden bin ready for the first collection of the year on Friday. Privet really isn’t good for compost.
This time next year I’m hoping to have a new permaculture based front garden. I was hoping to start this year but I haven’t felt up to doing much so far.
Granary toast for breakfast and some uplifting reading on WordPress, including this, this and this. I usually drop in here and here too, but I’m working slowly today. Apologies to those not mentioned, I’m just finding it harder to get round these days.
It was time for a walk then, as I’m trying to get more air and exercise. With a bad leg (not sure what is causing it, but sitting down all day isn’t helping) I’m struggling to do more than a few hundred yards, but that was just right to get back in time for the district nurse.
She provided me with a few bags and the phone number to get more plus help and advice. She also took blood pressure, heart rate and temperature readings with equipment that looked decidedly old-fashioned compared to the kit in hospital. All is as it should be. Finally she accepted that I was able to monitor my own bottom for signs of pressure sores, which was good. I’m a man, not a baboon, and such display is, frankly, neither necessary nor welcome.
By then it was time for lunch, shopping and a drive home.
I’m feeling tired now. Well, I’m convalescing so it’s allowed.
A good time for quiz shows and blogging, I feel.
Thank-you very much for the mention, Simon. 🙂 I’m sorry about the leg – hope you feel better soon.
It’s getting a bit better every day thanks – just waiting to see what goes wrong next! 🙂
I hope nothing goes wrong. 🙂
Fingers crossed. 🙂
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Rest up, and heal up. Hopefully the leg is just from sitting down too long.
Yes, I’m getting up and walking regularly to attempt a cure. 😉
Thanks for managing to drop in
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Good to read that you are keeping your chin up. I wonder if The Head Gardener would approve of a flame gun.
It’s organic so it has something going for it. 🙂
Cheers for the link! Hope you are soon feeling up to tackling those garden jobs. That’s if you want to feel up to tackling them! I’ve been finding myself rather picking and choosing which tasks I feel up to. But don’t tell anyone I confessed to that.
No point being a convalescent if you can’t pick and choose.
Well exactly!
You are right about privet in the compost and about the need for a bit of rest when it is required. I enjoyed your baboon remark though it has left me with some rather odd images in my head.
In that case, my job is done. 🙂
Yes, it’s definitely allowed. Get some rest. One of the best ways to heal.
Zzzzz… 🙂